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  New pictures have surfaced on the web claiming to be of the next-gen iPhone. The veracity of the pictures is highly questionable but the iPhone’s rear pictured here seems to be inspired by the iPad, including its unibody aluminum design. Of course, there’s another issue of the metal causing radio interference but seeing a [...]

  Verizon putting up a page and another one with specs were enough for the official acknowledgement and with the latest release, they’ve blurted out the price too. Verizon will start online pre-orders on April 19 and will ship from April 29 for $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate and two-year contract. To regurgitate, the [...]

  Intel’s Developer Forum has concluded in Beijing and along with it, has released couple of videos showcasing its much touted MeeGo OS. The videos show MeeGo 1.0 and Intel’s vision of how it wants this OS to be. MeeGo on netbook isn’t that noteworthy as the OS on other devices. MeeGo allows users to [...]

  Nokia’s super snapper N86 has got a firmware update. The v30.009 is available via the Nokia Software Updater or over-the-air and though the full changelog is a mystery, Steve from AAS confirms the firmware features the latest Ovi Maps with free navigation, location sharing on Facebook and improvements in Nokia Messaging. The phone supports [...]

  Samsung has announced two new variants of its CDMA Corby and Metro phones. The Corby TV and Metro TV now features a customized application that will allow users to watch Live TV or recorded content. The app known as MimobiTV Mobile TV is developed by Apalya and gives users on-demand content streaming of more [...]

  Taiwan’s A-DATA has announced a new portable USB HDD for the Indian market. The 2.5-inch NH01 is now available in India and boasts the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity. The USB 3.0 equipped NH01 is about three times faster than a USB 2.0 drive and has a read/write speed of up to 88/81 MB/s, which [...]

  Not the best of analogies I must say but a recent UN report says that Indians have more mobile phones than they have toilets. “It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic necessity [...]

  Verizon’s site has published Droid Incredible specifications, which were unconfirmed till yesterday. The official specs are almost same as the rumored ones but with some changes here and there. Features we can look forward to are the 3.7-inch WVGA OLED touchscreen, Android 2.1 OS with Google Experience, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Sense UI, 8GB internal [...]

  LG has announced a new phone in South Korea integrating DMB 2.0. The LG-SU240 or Café is the first phone in Korea to support bi-directional T-DMB that allows users to not only watch live broadcasts but also listen to radio, surf internet at the same time. Other than that, the phone features a 3.2-inch [...]

  Remember the Vodafone 845 phone with 360 service? Well, we can now keep our eyes off the blurry image and take a glance at these lovely looking ones. The phone’s been identified as Huawei Joy and chimes with most of the specs we heard before. The phone will run Android 2.1 and will feature [...]

  UPDATE: Orange will also offer the iPad in UK, France, Spain and Switzerland. Vodafone and O2 have confirmed to bring the iPad to the United Kingdom. The international version of iPad will be launched in May and UK will be one of the first countries to receive. As for the device, both Vodafone and [...]

  Forget an official release, Verizon has just published a page for confirming the mighty HTC phone. Verizon calls it Droid Incredible and the phone might be launched on April 29. The intrinsic details — which we already know — hasn’t been revealed but the presence of Sense UI is evident from the screenshot. Interested [...]

  Apple today issued a small statement saying that they’ve postponed the international launch of its iPad tablet. Apple says “surprisingly strong US demand” has led the postponement of the iPad by a month. Apple will soon announce the international pricing along with the countries and will start taking pre-orders on May 10 while ship [...]

  A picture of a new Xbox 360 motherboard sparked the 360 Slim rumors and now if we were to believe Michael Pachter, analyst at Wedbush Morgan, we might have the slimmer version by end of this year. “It is far more likely that we will see a slim version of the Xbox 360 with [...]

  Apple’s next generation iPhone might be revealed on June 22. The date comes from modmyi who’s been sleuthing the availability dates of Yerba Buena Center and found out that Apple has booked the said date for an event. The event could be about anything but the fact that Apple has unveiled all the iPhone [...]